Must-See Video: Showta Mori's Travis Bickle iPhone Hack

This is awesome: Tokyo-based Showta Mori, a businessman turned stage performer from what we can tell, has rigged up a Travis-Bickle-like iPhone contraption using drawer slides. What's funny is that some of the younger generation currently linking to this video apparently have no idea it's based on Taxi Driver. Anyways just watch this, it's worth it:

John Maeda of MIT's Media Lab--well known for his design+math wizardry--has joined forces with Reebok in a limited production run of the Timetanium sneaker. Each of only 100 pairs feature original graphics by Maeda on the exterior with his hand-written notes gracing the interior lining. Timetaniums will be available worldwide...

To us mainlanders New Zealand has always looked like paradise, and now it seems even their ID students have more fun. For the final part of their industrial design technology paper, students at Massey University's School of Design got to race human-powered watercraft of their own design around the Frank...